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Monthly Archives: September 2009

And a little closer to the present

Sunday, September 27, 2009

One more quick status update before I go:
1) Yesterday Narin took me into the city proper for the first time, which was excellent. (She was joking about having no practice being a tour guide in Antep, but she was really helpful.) I now have the beginnings of an understanding of how the bus system works [...]

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Fortunes

Sunday, September 27, 2009

I am finally sitting outside the Gaziantep airport, after a rather chaotic trip over here. The last few days before leaving were a whirlwind– even more so than usual, I think, because I wound up needing to take the GRE the morning before I left. (I did fine, though not as well as [...]

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Made it. (Barely?)

Friday, September 25, 2009

I am writing from Gaziantep, finally (and am on the laptop of my host, where I cannot find the apostrophe key, so expect some wacky phrasing and orthography). It was not the most pleasant plane trip I have ever taken, unfortunately, although I am dealing with much less jet lag than I anticipated.
There is [...]

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Look! It’s a visa!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Departure time for Turkey is rapidly approaching (more on that sometime soon), so I was really relieved that my Turkish visa arrived today. The paperwork took forever to get together– my own fault, though compounded by my lack of a non-passport ID and distance from a FEDEX office– and I’ve been worrying about the [...]

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Late-season garden thoughts

Friday, September 4, 2009

So this summer was one of the first times I was in the right place at the right time with sufficient time (sort of) to have a vegetable garden, and it was exciting, especially at the beginning.
Now that it’s September, how do I feel? Mixed. I mean, to give you some context:

Summer after [...]

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